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This work was co-sponsored by the University of St. Andrews School of Biology and Marine Scotland. This work received funding from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland) and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. PAMBuoys were supported by the Crown Estate and Scottish Enterprise. We are grateful to Moray First Marine, the crew of the Northern Lighthouse Board’s Polestar, the crew of the RV Alba na Mara, and Marine Scotland Science staff for deploying and recovering the archival units. 1.Determine baseline habitat use by bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises along the East Scottish Coast 2.Determine ambient noise levels at 11 deployment locations 3.Develop analysis methods for processing high volume acoustic data 4.Track individual bottlenose dolphins based on signature whistles Preliminary CPOD Results Future Aims and Objectives Acknowledgements